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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1958
Page
4
We list a string of weekend and holiday visits by residents and relatives to families in Abilene Dallas Saginaw Fort Worth Sherman Sherman Lubbock Baytown Baytown Honey Grove Sulphur Springs Bells Garland Fisher? Leonard Commerce Whitewright Tulsa Greenville Dallas Dallas. The notes show social ties across Abilene Dallas Fort Worth and neighboring cities.
Dallas and Sherman based McKnight families visit Mrs. O T McKnight with extended kinfolk. Christmas gifts taken Monday to Buckner Orphans Home in Dallas by Whitewright and Bethel delegates including J P Darwin W L Hatfield Paula Geers Judy Gosnell Doris Tillett Donita Brown Rev Bill Smith and others.
Rotary guest Les Tribble discussed a surge in crime in the United States, noting that last year a youth from one in fourteen families was involved. He was introduced by Russell Summers and accompanied by Mr. Brown of the Sherman Police Department.
The Public Health Service reports a 40 percent rise in paralytic polio cases in the United States for 1958 compared with the same period in 1957, though still far below 1956 figures. Last week alone added 59 paralytic polio cases, 19 in Texas, bringing the year total to 3003.
Community notes recount a turkey dinner for Method Church stewards hosted by Mr and Mrs T E Sears. Birth of a daughter announced for Mr and Mrs Otto Lankford. notable Rotary meeting guest Lynn Landrum. A list of football letters awarded to Tigers follows, plus a fire trove incident near Hells Mes and a bridal shower for Mrs William Howard Harrison.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hooper last Saturday. Other brief items note F. M. Echols attending a Grand I. O. O. F. Lodge session in Fort Worth, Tommy Sloan taking a job in Temple, and local women on the Friday literary club program along with Miss Beatrice Beasley visiting her father R. F. Beasley for the weekend.
A huge crowd lined Whitewright streets for the Friday night Santa Claus parade. The event highlighted community spirit as local families watched the festive procession pass by.
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